GCap, which earlier this year closed its DAB station Core, has announced that two more DAB stations, Planet Rock and The Jazz are for the chop. The company is also to sell its stake in Digital One and Xfm FM licences outside London.

At the same time as announcing the two closures, GCap, owner of Classic FM and Capital Radio, unveiled a version of its musicradio.com website that works on the iPhone. The site allows listeners to stream the output of any one of Gcap’s stations to their iPhone, look up the last five songs played, buy one of those songs from iTunes or a whole album from Amazon, and listen to the station’s podcasts.

The service will also work on the iPod touch, but as it requires an Internet connection, will only work when the iPod is in range of a wifi hotspot. This makes listening while on the move more difficult on the touch than on the iPhone where the service can be accessed over the Edge mobile phone network.

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